I wrote the following article together with Max Senges and Peter Bihr for the UOC Fórum Innovació.

Social Communities have grown rapidly over the last years, offering people the chance to publish personal information and connect with each other. The biggest social community today is Facebook with more than 120 million members. Due to the myriad possibilities to use Facebook, there many ways to support teaching and learning.

Facebook started in 2004 at Harvard University and was aimed at connecting students. Now, almost every American student and many Europeans have profiles on Facebook. They use it to share information, such as links, photos and videos, to arrange real life events and to communicate in groups.

From: http://www.apple.com/au/education/digitalkids/disconnect/landscape.htmlFace

The use of Facebook also shows the current cultural differences between teachers who slowly have to adapt to new technologies and students who grew up with digital communication. The differences in media use and learning behaviour between so called “digital native learners” and “digital immigrant teachers” are shown below. Understanding how to use Facebook opens up a way to stepping closer to actual student behaviour and to create a more appropriate way of teaching.

Read on at the UOC Fórum Innovació.

Facebook for Services, students create job and service profiles

Soundcloud has new and exciting sharing features. If allowed by the artist, you can now embed the song not only in your blog (as seen previously on Stylewalker) but also send them directly to Twitter, Facebook and Myspace. Slick. Enjoy another of Ben Mono’s minimixes here:

Tonight, me and my mate Patrick Gräser will play in Magdeburg to a big student party crowd. Come around if you’re there, we’ll see what the young folks think about my bass monsters.

Find more Dj mixes by Patrick Gräser.

On friday, I’ll play at a private party at Pan Am Lounge – this will be fun, too! Pan Am Lounge is the place where pilots and other employees of Pan America Airlines used to hang out in the sixties and seventies. And it looks exactly like that.

Hobnox has some new, very much awaited features. First, you can now live record your music creation from the audiotool. Thus, Hobnox is one of the first web applications to use Flash10 which now supports wider audio emulation, not at least thanks to the “Adobe, Make some noise!“-campaign, partly driven by Hobnox developers.

Apart from that, the Audiotool has more features compared to the original version, e.g. a command bar which makes it easier to work with many machines plus when inactive for a while, the light fades out and the machines are solitarily left in the dark..

Listen to my little bass monster here:

Saving songs requires several steps, you will need to login, it will then be encoded and you can find it in ‘My files’, on visibility you can adjust copyright settings (also creative commons), here you need to allow embedding, then send the file to your stage, go to your stage, choose the file and on mouseover you’ll see the embed icon (< ..>) to get the embed code.

Moreover, you can save the live shows you can stream with Hobnox now (still, in a quality I haven’t seen on other platforms) to play them later in your profile, also the Evolution2 is still running.

In theatres from 30th october:

Now this is a great story. Here’s a kid, from a German small town, Göttingen. He becomes a dj and is obessed with training with the decks. He gets really good, becomes a champion. Plays all over Germany, Europe, US. Goes on a tour to Asia – and stays there, playing regularly at parties in Hong Kong.

His name is Kid Fresh and I already wrote about him. Looking at the pictures on the partyblog accompanying the “Pimpin’ ain’t easy” parties in Hong Kong, he deals with a very fancy party crowd there.

Tonight he’ll be playing at Scala, Friedrichstr. Pimpin’ ain’t easy? In Kid Fresh’s case, this might be untrue.

Here is his Winter in Shang Hai Mix via Palmsout Sounds

And here’s his Micromegamix on Zshare

I am getting lots of hits from people looking for “Karneval der Verpeilten 2008″. This year, this classical open air (for the tenth time!) will NOT take place at the Planetarium but behind the Hauptbahnhof, at Moabiter Werder on sunday, 08 September, 12-22 h – here is a map.

10 YEARS KARNEVAL DER VERPEILTEN –
Bar25 and Bachstelzen Line up:
Witwe Bolte aka Christin & Ultraviolettnana & Mr. Mostash – live
david doradepilocka krach – live
Man of tomorrow – live/dj
heinrichs&hirtenfellner
one:shot:orchestra – live
gianni vitiello
sven dohse
the dose – live
m.a.n.d.y
philip b

www.maxundmoriz.de

Danny Sangra is a true working pop artist. Flashy colours, poppy motivs and detailed painting are his trademarks. The London painter also successfully designs clothes, bars and hotels. He also designed T-Shirts for Levi’s and now Levi’s Berlin booked him to redesign the white walls of its Flagship store in Kurfürstendamm 237.

Tomorrow (Sep04) there will be an opening, starts 20:30h, Peaches will be djing, I guess a bunch of marketing, design and otherwise scenish people will show up but if you look arty enough you have the chance to sneak in and grab some free beer.

See him painting after the click
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Anyone who is into music, I mean, really, like producing, djing, working with it, should take a look at Soundcloud. I heard about it the first time at Next in Hamburg where Alexander Ljung presented his startup. He is one of the founders who decided early this year to come from Stockholm to Berlin to start this servive for music professionals which shall “represent the whole processes of music production and promotion until finally a song is being released” as Alexander summarizes the idea.

And Soundcloud is intriguing, not least because so many professional musicians from the electronic scene already are members and share their songs before they come out to a selected network of contacts: Richie Hawtin, Tanith, the whole Compost crew to only name a few. One nice feature is the comment function where people can put a comment into the timeline of a track and thus precisely give feedback, e.g. ask for songnames in dj mixes. Here is an amazingly fresh yet powerful dubstepmix by Tanith.

Another feature is the dropbox, so here you can drop songs for me I should e.g. consider playing in dj sets or promote via stylewalker.net:

Send me your track

I have one 19 invites (thanks, Alex!) for Soundcloud left, so leave a comment if you’re interested.

Tomorrow, Alexander organizes a likemind meeting, 9 AM (!), so come around, have a coffee at Oberholz, Berlin.

by Jesus PresleyI wrote about Melt05, Melt06 and Melt07 and in the first years I had the feeling to be one lonely chronist of this special festival, the last two years there has been an impressive coverage from press and blog, so this time I am only telling my own story and link to others to round everything up.

It has been the biggest Melt! festival so far with more than 20 000 visitors and three days of packed stages from rock to techno from bands to Djs. And things that grow hurt sometimes. It’s not easy to maintain the magic of a small festival with special bands if more and more people want to come and see it. It’s a big tease and a big challenge to let it grow, organize three days instead of two and produce a big show like the one Björk did on the last day, sunday.
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I had the chance to buy one of his pictures and I didn’t, now I really regret that. XooooX has a very memorable style, silhouettes of girls thinking about something. Most of the time they just think “XooooX”.

The Berlin street artist will not be present tonight when Circleculture gallery opens another streetart exhibtion, pushing the subversive power of free art in public places to another level. But many others will, so come around, 7pm!

Oh my god. Did I ever have such a physical experience of sound? Just by the pure power of bass? Did I ever see people rave to such crude beats, only driven by the sheer massiveness from the incredible sound system?

Substance at Berghain was amazing – we waited for almost two hours to get in but it was worth every minute (Anyway, I like standing in line, it kind of hypes up the whole atmosphere and everybody is happy, once they are in).

Already in the ground floor, before walking up the stairs of Berghain, the walls where shaking. We literally jumped up the steps and minutes later stood right next to the DJ. The crowd was shaking from the soundscapes and booming basslines and especially when compared to Panorama bar’s (Kompakt crew played the typical club sound) ever-so-familiar bom-bom-bom one realized what a revolutionary concept in club music dubstep really is.

Directly, I looked for more dj mixes and found an excellent dark and complex-drummy banger by Scuba, dj and founder of London based label Hotflush recordings via Real Vinylz -
Scuba N16 mix:

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More downloads from Hotflush.

Es steht ein Haus in Neuruppin und es sieht ziemlich düster aus. Dreckiges Linoleum, Hängelampe und den elektrischen Bratenschneider auf dem Tisch. Drin sitzen K.I.Z und rappen über Mordfantasien. Man kann das Haus mit Mouseclicks durchlaufen und Schrecklichkeiten entdecken.

Produziert wurde dieses interaktive Musikvideo von der Webproduktionsschmiede Kubikfoto, die noch einige andere tolle Projekte im Netz haben, die sich mit klickbaren Foto- Videowelten beschäftigen – oft mit einem schön morbiden Touch.

KIZ – ein Haus in Neuruppin

A little animation about the future with Mediaspree by PappsattKiki Blofeld – gone. Oststrand – gone. Bar25 – gone. Yaam – gone. Maria am Ufer – gone. All of these cultural pearls along the river in Berlin will be gone in very short time, should the plans of “Mediaspree” become reality.

183 000 Friedrichshain-Kreuzbergers can cast their vote concerning these plans of a big urban development project along the river Spree on July 13th. The project “Mediaspree” plans to build offices and buildings within the next years and is going to invest more than 2 billion Euro. The cost would be the loss of a lot of public urban space.

Urban development is a good thing, in this case though, many people fear to be left without being asked. All what is special about Berlin, the little, independent, free and creative places, the bars and clubs at the river, I would even go as far to say, the creativity itself, is in danger here. The intitiative with the martial name “Mediaspree versenken” demands no more than to leave a space of at least 50 meters between the river and the new houses, space to be used for all Berliners and all who come here. You can vote for this demand on July13th if you live in Friedrichshain or Kreuzberg – tell your friends!

It’s fête de la musique and there are a lot of free parties on the Berlin party list!

“Podemos hablar tu y yo un minuto? Tranquilo? Viniste sola? Te gusta bailar? Vamos a bailar.. Ah, sí, me gusta. Tus movimientos me inspiran.. Como te llamas? Te podía ofrecer una.. Mi nombre es Buen Pachanga”. This is how this absolute Mediterranean set by Luciano starts, directly from Ibiza and you can literally feel the sand in between your dancing toes. It’s all about deep and a little trancy grooves, a slow bass drum and some screams in the background. Summer can be so untroubled.
[via Anders B] and Elektroaktivisten]
Enjoy Luciano’s Ibiza Voice Podcast

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Funkpark / Rechenzentrum is one of Berlin’s most interesting locations right now. Situated right by the water, a little south-east from Treptower park, it is a beautiful outdoor area, with volleyball pitches, beach, little huts, bars and lots of sand. And during the weekends, the party moves to the indoor location Rechenzentrum, equipped with an impressive sound system.

Tomorrow, I have the big honor to play some tunes from 18h, then watch THE game (Ronaldo, I want to see you cry. Again.) and play on a little. So, please come around, find a map below. You can ride the bike from Ostkreuz (10min) or take the bus 21 from Frankfurter Tor, Bersarinplatz, Boxhagenerplatz and Ostkreuz (exit Markgrafendamm, then some meters to the right towards the crossing) stopping at Köpenickerchaussee/Blockdammweg. There’s a map after the click:
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Das Buch ist draußen! Nun kann man meine Abschlussarbeit auch gedruckt und gebunden erwerben, für den recht stolzen Preis von ca. 50EUR, z.B. über Amazon.

Daher freut es mich sehr, den Text auch als pdf-Download unter cc Lizenz anbieten zu können, voilá: “Zum Beitrag von Weblogs zur Konstitution von Organisationsidentität” (oder als HTML-Version), geschrieben an der FU Berlin, bei Juliana Raupp am Institut für Publizistik und Kommunikationswissenschaft an der Arbeitsstelle Organisationskommunikation, bewertet mit einer sehr guten Note.
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Changing Room Barcelona is a concept to present new, exclusive and exciting fashion in a very unusual way. People are invited every now and then to participate in a showroom, located in different hotel rooms.

The next edition, called “Calor 08″ will take place at the hotel “Chic & basic” in Calle Princesa 50, this Saturday, June 14th, from 11 AM to 9 PM. On the website you will find many slideshows with pictures from past shows.

Although I am not living there anymore, I can ensure that it’s still a very vibrant and creative city, especially in fashion. Not at last because of that it has become home of Bread&Butter..

So, we went to talk to Estelle about her new album “Shine”, working with Kanye West, playing live, being in New York and the remix culture of the internet. Marina asked the questions, Sven did the editing and I had the camera. A cheerful PANORAMA3000 production!

Estelle Video Interview from Stylewalker on Vimeo.

Picture from his MyspaceNow Jack Tennis not only has sympathetic glasses but is also a great dj who likes to rock crowds. Well, you’d say, is this not something any DJ likes? And again, I say, Jack Tennis REALLY likes to rock the crowd.

Here we have some nice neo-discoish remixes by this handsome scoundrel from Berlin. Together with Shir Khan and Supermarket they team up as Berlin Battery, play at parties and release remixes on the net. So, for frequent updates of his work, check Berlin Battery.

Sebastian Tellier – Kilometer (Jack Tennis Remix) on Zshare.
Neonman – Nightclubbing (Jack Tennis Remix)
Talking Heads – Psycho Killer (A Jack Tennis Edit)

“Derzeit tauchen vermehrt spezielle Toolkits auf, mit denen Hacker Fehler in populären Web-Anwendungen oder serverseitigen Skriptsprachen ausnutzen, um Schadcodes auf Websites zu platzieren.” – habe ich gerade bei UD Media gelesen. Der Scheiß-Hack hat anscheinend System und tatsächlich was mit Wordpress zu tun – irgendwelche Scriptkiddies haben neue Spielzeuge bekommen.

Ich muss Wordpress updaten. Vorher: Datenbank sichern. Und dann kann ich auch eigentlich gleich das Site-Design ein bisschen pimpen. Wann ich das machen soll, weiß ich zwar noch nicht, aber ich geh mal Schritt für Schritt vor. Bin ja eh aus dem Google-Index, es sind also nur Freunde hier! Also, ich blogge in intimer Atmosphäre normal weiter und versuche derweil, das Ding hier wieder auf Vordermann zu bringen. Seht es mir nach und stay tuned!

Also gut, Stylewalker wurde gehackt. Aber nicht um auf irgendwelche wahnsinnig wertvollen Daten zuzugreifen sondern nur um eine verdammte Riesenzeile Spam in die footer.php einzufügen. Da ist ungefähr so, als hätte mir jemand in den Flur gekackt. Nachts, ohne dass ich es merke.

Krieg ich raus durch eine Mail von Google, denn die haben es eher gemerkt. Kurz gesagt:Stylewalker.net ist aus dem Google-Index und zwar fuer mindestens 30 Tage bis sich jemand meine Beteuerung, ich hätte nichts damit zu tun, ansehen kann. Alle für also, die einfach “Stylewalker” bei Google eingeben und auf den ersten Link tippen, bleibt die Seite duester, denn der erste Stylewalker Link ist jetzt entweder irgendwas japanisches oder ein schlimmer Trance DJ, der seine Seite seit vier Jahren nicht aktualisiert hat. Fuck!

Wahrscheinlich sind die Spammer, die wohl nicht auf der Suche nach einem optimalen Werbeumfeld für ihre Versicherungsprodukte waren, durch eine simple Sicherheitslücke in Wordpress eingedrungen. Also: Updaten!

Ich fühle mich so missbraucht!

In der Panik habe ich erstmal alle Passwörter geändert, was dazu führte, dass auf einmal die ganze Seite nicht zu erreichen war. Danke für die lieben Nachfrage-Mails! Das war mal ein schönes Gefühl.

So, jetzt gehe ich auf die Next08 und hoffe, so wie gestern auf der Facebook Garage wenigstens einen oder zwei nette Menschen zu treffen. Währenddessen werde ich darüber sinnieren, was das alles wohl zu bedeuten hat. Höchstwahrscheinlich, dass es Zeit für ein Update und ein neues Layout ist. Wer das hier liest, ist übrigens super! Er hat nämlich NICHT “Stylewalker” bei Google eingegeben, sondern samt “.net” in die Adresszeile.

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